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British actress Cush Jumbo is best known for her starring role in US TV dramas The Good Wife and spin-off The Good Fight. Now she\u2019s aiming to set the London theatre scene alight, playing \u2018a new kind of Hamlet\u2019 at the Young Vic. Only a handful of women have ever taken on the role before, and Jumbo is the first woman of colour to play the troubled Danish prince in a major production in Britain.

It hasn\u2019t been plain sailing for Cush Jumbo, who worked a long list of jobs \u2013 including door to door sales and waitressing in a strip bar \u2013 to support herself as an aspiring actress, and came close to quitting altogether. But, as Mark Coles hears, she wrote her way out of the doldrums and became a star on both sides of the Atlantic.

Celebrity mates Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) help tell her story, and spill some great anecdotes along the way.

Presenter: Mark Coles\nProducer: Beth Sagar-Fenton\nResearchers: Zoe Gelber, Soila Apparicio, Bethan Head\nProduction Coordinator: Janet Staples\nEditor: Penny Murphy\nMix: Neil Churchill